I see 3 problems with your final output (though there still could be more) 1) Each header has to end in \r\n, \n usually works but it's supposed to be \r\n
2) This: $headers .="Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=\"--i0o9u8h7g65v\""; should be this: $headers .="Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=\"--i0o9u8h7g65v\""; or this: $headers .="Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=\"--i0o9u8h7g65v\""; A header can continue on the next line for readability, but it has to start with whitespace (space or a tab), otherwise it trys to create the boundary as a new header. 3) The final boundary must end in -- as well as start with it so: $message .="--i0o9u8h7g65v"; should be $message .="--i0o9u8h7g65v--"; Chris -----Original Message----- From: Bill Green [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 8:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] mail question (mime) Greetings all. (hope this isn't a second post, first try seemed to fail) In an effort to understand more about mime mail, I'm writing a little function to send a multipart/alternative encoded mime mail from a browser interface. I know you guys have answered these types of questions many times, but I've googled and research til I'm blue. I'm still somewhat new to php so I apologize. I'm on a shared hosting environment running Apache 1.3.29 (Unix), magic_quotes_gpc = on, path to sendmail = /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i, smtp is localhost on port 25 (and I don't know much about Unix permissions). My client platform is Mac, my email client is Outlook Express (might as well be testing to the lowest common denominator). I've found lots of php classes on mime mail but have not tried them because I want to understand the code. I can use this code to send plain text email or html email just fine, but not multipart/alternative or mixed. Here's the relevant code. Can someone point out the error of my ways? browser interface: 5 fields (3 input of type=text, 2 input of type=textarea) names: $from $to $subject $text_msg $html_msg On submit, I trim all and stripslashes on the textarea inputs (interesting that magic quotes seems to add slashes to textarea inputs automatically), then set my email headers: $headers ="From: {$from}\n"; $headers .="Reply-To: {$from}\n"; $headers .="Return-Path: {$from}\n"; $headers .="Subject: {$subject}\n"; $headers .="X-Sender: {$from}\n"; $headers .="X-Mailer: PHP\n"; $headers .="X-MSMail-Priority: High\n"; $headers .="MIME-Version: 1.0\n"; $headers .="Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=\"--i0o9u8h7g65v\""; $message ="--i0o9u8h7g65v\n"; $message .="Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1\n"; $message .="Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n"; $message .="Content-Disposition: inline\n"; $message .=$text_msg."\n";//plain text message here $message .="--i0o9u8h7g65v\n"; $message .="Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\n"; $message .="Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n"; $message .="Content-Disposition: inline\n"; $message .=$html_msg."\n";//html message here $message .="--i0o9u8h7g65v"; mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers); The email is sent successfully, but with no message in the message body. Looking at the message source I see that all of the headers are set and I see the boundaries and I see both versions of the messages as one would expect. It all looks correct, even as compared to other mime encoded email I receive and read just fine. I've tried many variations on these variables. FYI, if I change the $header = "Content-Type: multipart/alternative; ...."; to $message = "Content-Type: ..."; then I see the raw code in the message body, but of course that does no good. Same results when message is viewed in a browser based hotmail or yahoo account. I simply do not understand what I don't understand, so I don't know how to ask my question. Is this a coding problem, sendmail, permissions, a server issue??? Thanks for your help. -- Bill -- -- Bill -- -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
